Suspect Suffers Heart Attack

Published: September 29, 1989

A 47-year-old Queens man who apparently suffered a heart attack after his arrest Wednesday night on a drug charge died early yesterday at Woodhull Hospital, the police said. The man, James Howa, of 17-12 Harman Street, in the Ridgewood section, had been charged with criminal possession of a hypodermic needle. He began suffering convulsions while in a holding cell in the 90th Precinct station house and was taken to the hospital at 11:12 P.M. on Wednesday, the police said. He was pronounced dead by hospital officials at 5:55 A.M. yesterday.